The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-28
MINNESOTA.

Chinch bugs have done much dam &c in
Mower county.
The Waseca encampment at Maplewood
Park, closed on the end. after successful
ard valuable session.
At Minneapolis on the 2and, sls4,OOo had
been paid into the city treasury by Isl
saloon-keepers, under the new high icence
law.
Matthias Sterrit farmer OF Mount
Pleasant, Wabasha Co., aged IS years, died
on the 18th. from sun-stroke. He had re
sided there % years.
A six-year old son of John O'Malley, a
farmer residing near Tracy, fell in a we'll
Monday and was drowned. The body was
buried i'll the Catholic cemetry at Currie.
The fourth annual fair Of the Crow Wing
County Agricultural Society will be held on
Friday and Saturday, Sept . and 10, and
promises to be the biggest ever held in the
county.
Fred Tank, an old settler Of Welch, Nina,
was killed III Douglas Sunday forenoon
while going to church in New Trier, being
thrown from his buggy violently to the
ground.
At Faribault subscription of 5000 Is
being raised to defray surveying expenses
for the proposed Mississippi, Faribault a.
Northwestern railway. The survey will be
northwest from Faribault.
Henry Earnest, aged al, employed at the
Harvester works, Winona, Mimi, was
two other men. They were attempting to
row under the cable ferry when it came
down on the boat, capsizing it. Earnest
clung to the cable, which dragged him
under and he never came up.
The Coldwater chair factory took fire on
the night OF the 10Th, and burned, the night
watchman sleeping soundIy until the roof
! fell in. Loss, $500. insurance $1,000.
Ssventy-fiye are out OF work.
Herman Hempel, of Ephriam, Dorr
county, Wisconsin, stopped in Winona on
his way home from Dakota. He fell in with
two strangers who robbed hlm at the Park
House during the night or $75 and his
watch.
An incompleted dwelling house at Sauk
Rapids belonging to Yerxa, head sawyer in
Senator Bluckman's saw mill there, was
fired by tramps early Wednesday morning
and completely destroyed. Loss, $l,O0o;
lASui ouCCs csOOs
r. J. Mcguire, well known in Minnesota
newspaper circles, died at Duluth on the
2lst, aged IS years. He had been a sufferer
| for years with hip disease aud latterly with
| consumption. He sought relief by amputa-
tion OF the leg at the hip, but was too weak
to survive the opel alton.
Duluth special, 10Th: The Duluth Il Iron
Range Railway Company started surveyors
| out this morning to commence locating the
proposed extension OF the road into the new
iron district. Some work will be done this
fall in laying track and grading. The ex-
tension is to be thirty miles long.
Coroner Babcock OF Wadena county was
summoned to Thomaston to hold an inquest
| on the 10th upon the body of Philander
Ball, an aged hermit, who had been found
dead in his shanty. The inquest developed
the fact that Ball died from cholera morbus
The death agonies must have been horrible,
as the flesh had been partially torn from
his knees. hips and arms.
Shortly before midnight July 90, fire
broke out from an unknown cause, in the
| upper floor of six story building in the
Who'll sale district, st. Paul, owned by +.
Il Kelley, and occupied by II. 9. Burbank
| a. Co. wholesale clothiers, aud the Mime
| sofa Coffee and Spice Go. The fire was
confined to the roof and 5th and 9TH floors,
the stock upon the ether floors being
damaged by the deluse of water. Bur-
| banks loss is $4,000, Spice company - y
200, on building 5000, all fully covered by
| insurance.
| st. Cloud is much afflicted with tramps; q
| night or two since the residence of Mayor
| Calhoun was entered by tramps and robbed
of all eatables il reach. The number OF pans
and plates found in the yard the mex,
morning indicates that five or six dined al
@ Inc Mayors expense ,ha III amps are SO mum
able to decide what to do. A barn Was
| burned by them recently aud another one Ii
wanted for indelicate exposure to number